The accelerating growth of data in all formats, sizes and speeds it is getting difficult for enterprises to get timely, accurate and actionable insights. AI provides the opportunity to help enterprises close this gap by creating new tools to improve their work and outcomes. But, the problem of finding the right data, regulatory concerns, scarcity of quality skills and lack of easy to use tools to build & manage ML/DL driven AI solutions is hindering enterprises from adopting AI in a larger scale.

IBM Watson is an AI platform that focuses on solving these problems and democratize AI; giving the ease of use to the business and the flexibility of choice to the developer. By seamlessly integrating with the essential systems business already uses, Watson helps turn structured & unstructured business data into actionable insights, ensuring enterprises have the information needed to help make the right decisions in time and with confidence.

Key takeaways:
• Learn why AI is essential for businesses
• Understand AI from ML
• Learn how Watson helps make it easy for businesses to integrate AI into their existing flows
• You don't need to be a data scientist to put AI to use, heck you might not all need to code!

About the Speaker:
Kiran Challapalli is the IBM Watson Technical Sales Leader & Client Solution Architect. He is responsible for working with clients of various industries to help them understand &identify use cases and build solutions using IBM Watson AI platform's services. He has over 18 years of experience in the areas of software development, IT strategy, architectures, analytics, databases, SOA and cognitive computing.
Kiran holds a Masters in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University. He has two patents, three more pending and a few publications.